title: Do transactive memory and participative teamwork improve nurses' quality of work life?
abstract: Improvement in nurses' quality of work life (QWL) has become a major issue in health care organizations. We hypothesized that the level of transactive memory (defined as the way groups collectively encode, store, and retrieve knowledge) and participative teamwork (an organizational model of care based on vocational training, a specific service's care project, and regular interdisciplinary staffing) positively affect nurses' QWL. This cross-sectional study enrolled 84 ward-based psychiatric nurses. We assessed transactive memory, participative teamwork, perceived organizational justice, perceived organizational support, and QWL using psychometrically reliable and valid scales. Participative teamwork and transactive memory were positively associated with nurses' QWL. Perceived organizational support and organizational justice fully mediated the relationship between participative teamwork and QWL, but not between transactive memory and QWL. Improved transactive memory could directly improve nurses' QWL. Improved participative teamwork could improve nurses' QWL through better perceived organizational support and perceived organizational justice.
authors.affiliation: 1CHRU de Tours, Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brunault
authors.forename: Evelyne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fouquereau
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Colombat
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gillet
authors.forename: Wissam
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: El-Hage
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Camus
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaillard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: participative teamwork; psychiatric nurses; quality of work life; transactive memory